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Invite a Superhero to Your School |
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Greg has done school visits at the elementary and middle school level, both large and small assemblies, and would be happy to come and talk to your students about reading and writing. He tries to make things as interactive as possible, including music, drama and contests. So far, no one has kicked him out.
He sometimes teams up with illustrator Rhode Montijo for school visits, which is loads of fun for the kids, who get to see both sides of the book-creation process.
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Greg Trine lives in his hideout in California, where he has been saving the world since the
seventh grade. What was he doing before this time? He doesn’t remember,
but he’s pretty sure it wasn’t saving the world. Like his favorite
superhero, Greg has trouble stopping trains, though he can stop a truck
simply by looking at it.
When he is not ridding the world of devious and sinister bad guys, he
is either trying to invent a new flavor of ice cream—his last one was
Rainbow Trout Ripple—or writing funny books with his sidekick Rhode
Montijo. Sometimes Greg makes Rhode laugh, and somtimes Rhode makes
Greg laugh. They’re keeping track of this, and so far it’s a tie.
Greg is pretty sure he received a college degree in something, from a
university somewhere. But it’s been so long that he’s probably
forgotten everything he was supposed to have learned. He’s just glad to
have discovered children’s books, and it is here he wishes to stay for
a very long time. Or at least until Thursday.
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Rhode Montijo - The Illustrator |
 Rhode Montijo is superhero Greg’s sidekick. He enjoys creating art from his top-
secret headquarters in California. He believes that creating children’s
books is super! His weakness: red licorice.
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“Mr. Trine's presentation to my son's class combined humor, inspiration, and a heart-felt reader's ethic. The kids were mesmerized.” Steven Frye Father and Professor of English at California State, University, Bakersfield
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